Eco-friendly optics: Spider silk's talents harnessed for use in biosensors, lasers, microchips

Thursday, October 11, 2012 - 12:31 in Physics & Chemistry

Spiders use their silk to catch lunch. Now physicists are using it to catch light. New research shows that natural silk could be an eco-friendly alternative to more traditional ways of manipulating light, such as through glass or plastic fiber optic cables.

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